Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Welcome to The House of Taboo! I'm Luscious Lia, your host and owner of this establishment. This week we're thrilled to be a part of the promotional blitz for our friend and fellow author Bonnie Blitz. She's re-released one of her novels written as R.L. Kirk. Now the tales of Lily Blackwood and the Blackwood wolves will all be told under the pen name Bonnie Bliss...a name synonymous with smokin' hot characters and even steamier love scenes.

This blitz is hosted by Book Enthusiasts promotions. They've put together a great lineup of blogs to showcase different excerpts form Lily: The Blackwood Wolves Saga. Some stops even agreed to post reviews. In fact, our sister blog Sassy Vixen Publishing is one of them. You can find The Vixen's 5 heart review for Lily by clicking on the link below.

One, Wallace is her perfect idea of a partner, loving, loyal and handsome. The second, Bryn, is her true mate, the man chosen for her by nature and her family. Denial and naivety for nature’s choice, sends her into a rage of independence against the laws of her own destiny, family and her own father.

Wallace Kirk is assigned to protect the beautiful Lily since her birth...

His loyalties are tearing him apart. His own mate, dead, taken from him, fills his thoughts as Lily begs for his attention. She needs him, but not as much as the wolf that prowls in her flesh.

Bryn Kemp's nature and need fill his flesh...

Yet his true mate, the woman chosen for him, denies her destiny. His battle for her and his own pride must overcome her feisty rebellious streak. Both men must fight for her in the throes of oncoming battle and she must make the right choice. A decision that will shape the war.

*Author note: this book was previously published under the title Blackwood: Lily by R.L. Kirk*

“All these victims are females, more to the point, female
wolves…Blackwood Pack wolves. I knew three of them, Wallace even more. They’re
part of our family.”

An icy chill chose that moment to ripple up and down her
spine. Her arms came up again to cross over her chest. She was closing herself
off. Fear had a funny way of forcing your body to react in ways you didn’t want
them to. Lily started to speak. Her throat suddenly dry, she cleaned it on a
cough and finally spoke, in a whisper, almost like a mouse. “What does this
have to do with me?”

“I think deep down you know why, but I’ll spell it out for
you. We believe that someone is trying to draw bigger prey out in the open. We
don’t know who but we think they’re trying to get to either you or your
sister.”

Lily knew this time would come. The rise of her wolf and
her place in the pack was coming to the fore. Her sister and father let her do
her thing, biding their time and just waiting for something to happen that
would spark her dominant gene, pick a mate, and step up to take charge. Peering
down at the pictures, she realized that now was the moment she had to step
back. A deep part of Lily knew that she was never a human woman. She was wolf.
She closed her eyes tight, took a deep breath and let the air out slow. Then,
she turned towards Wallace. “What does this mean for me, not just as a
Blackwood, as a wolf? Be honest. We both knew at some point this…” She motioned
toward her home, referring more to her life. “…was temporary.”

“It’s time for you to grow, to become the wolf both of us
know you are capable of becoming, that’s what it means for you Lily. You need
more than I can give you, you need a mate.”

Lily rubbed her hands down her face. A mate was
inevitable. She’d always known this. She hid from the truth under the misguided
impression that she could just avoid it. Why? Maybe the idea of having Wallace.
In him, there was a comfort she wasn’t willing to let go of. There was no
chance for pregnancy, or longing love.

He would find his mate one day—she knew this. Yet,
something inside her rebelled against the idea of a mate because she knew that
with the mate, came the responsibility. Her father had always told her she was
the one. Her sister Catherine wasn’t meant to be an Alpha. She was. Duty,
loyalty, responsibility. She was so fucked. It was time, and it slammed into
her with all the subtly of a sledgehammer.

Will I fail?

That’s what this all came down to. She was worried she
would make a shitty mate and shitty Alpha. She was too curious, too weak,
too—human. She also didn’t like acting like an authoritative twat like the
other Alpha females. Her mother had died before she knew what a true woman of
power could and should be like. Lily could feel the penetrating gazes of Mike
and Wallace as she sat and just stared at the murder scenes. She would be safer
with a mate, stronger even. This was a knowledge that her wolf sang over.

Bonnie Bliss is the brain
child of two authors. Bonnie is husband and wife duo that has come together to
weave stories of passion, action, betrayal, and ultimate surrender. They have
discovered that mixing genres in their thing. Their tastes go dark, and they
love to twisted up sweet stories and make them a bit more tense and sexy.
Bonnie writes in multiple genres with plans to dabble into more areas of
fiction.

One is a Southern California
native, the other was born and raised in Yorkshire, England. The husband spends
his time giving the wife alpha males with bite. He is a man that needs to see
his world in print. He has a panty melting accent, loves listening to music,
watching Game of Thrones, and obsessing over Heisenberg. The wife spends her
time writing strong women that evolve into their power, they don’t just come
out guns blazing. She claims the song California Girls, by Katy Perry is
totally accurate. She’s done everything from waitressing, customer service
phone rep., Corporate Real Estate, and spent a pretty impression part of her
life working for the Disney Corporation—before finding her way into the
publishing world with her husband.